Collaborative DITA Documentation for Supporting Software Life Cycle

通用软件文档在可追溯性和可维护性方面存在一些问题。本研究的目的是解决这些问题，通过使用DITA，一个基于XML的架构创作技术文档。在DITA体系结构中，文档由主题和映射组成。主题具有少量可重用的信息，映射通过组织主题指定每个输出的内容。它有助于一起浏览相关内容和重用主题，然后DITA提高了文档的可跟踪性并降低了维护成本。为了将软件文档作为DITA内容进行管理，开发了一个集成的文档环境，该环境有助于为DITA创作主题和映射以及其他特定工作。通过对软件文档的分析，发现软件文档中存在三种结构类型，这些结构类型需要分解为不同大小的主题。此外，利用RDF和DITA实现了语义主题搜索系统。

General software documents have some problems with traceability and maintenance. This study aims to solve those problems by using DITA, an XML-based architecture for authoring technical documents. In DITA architecture, documents consist of topics and maps. Topics have small amount of information that can be reused, and maps specify contents of each output by organizing topics. It helps to browse relative contents together and reuse topics, and then DITA improves document traceability and reduces maintenance costs. For managing software documents as DITA contents, an integrated documentation environment that assists in authoring topics and maps, and other specific works for DITA was developed. As a result of analysis of software documents, it was found that there are three types of structures in software documents, and those need to be broken down into different-sized topics. Besides, the semantic topic search system is realized by using RDF with DITA.